Online Masters Global Cultures
The Online Masters Global Cultures Masters teaches essential cultural and interpersonal skills for today’s interconnected world. Develop creativity and the ability to negotiate between varying cultures and cultural contexts.
2 years
Part Time
Tuition: GBP 15,492
Paid Monthly: Pay in Instalment
Intakes: Sept 2026
Deadline: 28 Aug 2026
Course overview
The Global Cultures MA from King’s College prepares students with vital interpersonal and cultural competencies necessary for thriving in today’s interconnected society. This curriculum emphasises the cultivation of soft skills that are beyond the reach of artificial intelligence, including creativity, empathy, and the capacity to comprehend and navigate various cultural landscapes. Students will acquire proficiency in managing cultural disparities, advocating for inclusivity, and nurturing supportive professional environments, thereby enhancing their collaborative and communicative abilities with colleagues and international clients.
This Online Global Cultures MA has been crafted to empower professionals to excel in an increasingly globalised landscape by equipping both emerging and established leaders with practical insights into cultural competence, effective communication across diverse backgrounds, and the skills necessary to instigate positive change for the benefit of all. By engaging with the King’s College London Online Global Cultures MA, professionals will attain a sophisticated and thorough understanding of the definitions, distinctions, interrelations, and coexistence of global cultures in today’s multifaceted world.
The learning model of the King’s College London Online Global Cultures MA enables students to implement their knowledge through a capstone research project that is tailored to their workplace or career aspirations, facilitating the immediate application of cultural theories and practices in practical settings.
What the Online Global Cultures MA Teaches
- Acquire skills to effectively navigate cultural variances and establish meaningful relationships among individuals from diverse backgrounds.
- Cultivate essential soft skills such as communication, leadership, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence.
- Gain insights into fundamental concepts including race, gender, language, and migration.
- Learn to creatively and critically apply cultural knowledge to practical situations.
- Enhance problem-solving skills and creativity through both individual and collaborative projects.
- Understand the importance of fostering inclusivity and promoting open communication within diverse workplace settings.
- Master the art of leading diverse teams and inspiring collaborative efforts across different cultures.
- Develop a global perspective by engaging with an international network of professionals.
The Online Global Cultures MA is designed for professionals from various sectors seeking to improve their cultural awareness and leadership skills in an increasingly interconnected world.
Online Masters Global Cultures
Online Masters Global Cultures
Teaching & Assessment
All assessments for the course are based on coursework and submitted online. Performance on the course will be assessed through a range of methods including:
- Group presentations
- Written coursework (essays and reports)
- Online exams
Benefits
The Global Cultures MA is designed to cultivate essential skills that are vital for success across various sectors, particularly the capacity to navigate cultural variances and interact effectively with colleagues in international business environments. Graduates emerge as more empathetic and socially conscious leaders, possessing highly valued soft skills such as communication, leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, creativity, adaptability, empathy, and emotional intelligence. These abilities are crucial for fostering effective relationships, inspiring teams, and facilitating communication among individuals from diverse backgrounds.
The programme provides an opportunity to become part of a varied and global community, collaborating with professionals from a wide range of backgrounds and areas of expertise. This interaction with peers and instructors from around the world enhances understanding, builds confidence, and enables students to manage their academic pursuits alongside their professional responsibilities. The capstone research project allows for the practical application of acquired knowledge, with previous projects addressing a variety of subjects, including diversity and inclusion initiatives in educational settings and the impact of racism within law enforcement.
Career path
- Cultural Consultant
- Diversity and Inclusion Specialist
- International Relations Advisor
- Global Team Leader
- Cross-Cultural Trainee
- International Project Manager
- Community Engagement Coordinator
- Global Communications Specialist
The Online Global Cultures MA provides access to a diverse array of positions within the public, private, and non-profit sectors. In an increasingly globalised environment, businesses and organisations place a high premium on cultural awareness and diversity, rendering this MA particularly pertinent. International entities, charitable organisations, and governmental bodies actively pursue individuals who possess a profound understanding and appreciation of various cultures and languages.
Eligibility
Standard entry requirements:
You’ll need to meet one of the following criteria:
- A high 2:1 (65% or above) honours degree (or above) or international equivalent in any subject area.
- A 2:2 honours degree or international equivalent in a relevant subject area (humanities, law or social sciences).
Non-standard entry requirements
You’ll need to meet one of the following criteria:
- A master’s degree at merit (or above) or international equivalent in any subject area.
- A 2:2 honours degree or international equivalent in a non-relevant subject area. Your application will need to be supported by a CV and a 500-word written statement (see details under ‘Written statement and supporting information’ below).
- An ordinary or third-class honours degree or international equivalent in any subject area. Your application will need to be supported by a CV and a 500-word written statement (see details under ‘Written statement and supporting information’ below).
English language requirements
English language band: B
To study at King’s, it is essential that you can communicate in English effectively in an academic environment. You’re usually required to provide certification of your competence in English before starting your studies.
Nationals of majority English speaking countries (as defined by the UKVI) who have permanently resided in this country are not usually required to complete an additional English language test. This is also the case for applicants who have successfully completed:
- An undergraduate degree (at least three years duration) within five years of the course start date.
- A postgraduate taught degree (at least one year) within five years of the course start date.
- A PhD in a majority English-speaking country (as defined by the UKVI) within five years of the course start date.
Written statement and supporting information
Core Modules
Many modern Western preconceptions about language and culture are shaped by ideas about the nation-state, national languages, and national literary traditions. But this often masks complex multilingual practices and complicated historical precedents. This module will unpack some of these complexities and help you understand a range of processes that underpin the relationship between language and global cultural identities.
Explore representations of the movement and displacement of people, whether forced or voluntary, across the Atlantic world. This module offers diverse perspectives on the issues arising from cultural encounters, for example, by conquest, colonialism, exploration, exile, slavery, diaspora, urbanisation, and economic migration.
Case studies from a variety of media will focus on themes such as alienation, belonging, assimilation, difference, cultural pluralism, borders, and otherness. These will be considered in terms of their specific local and national relevance and transnational implications.
The module introduces the key questions and concerns in gender theory, their histories and some of their disciplinary and cultural variances. You’ll discover the fields of research that have been instrumental in developing a critical understanding of gender roles and relations, systems, and identities.
With a focus on the Atlantic World, you’ll learn how gender materialises through culturally and linguistically specific practices at local and transnational scales. You’ll also explore how gender manifests in literary, visual, and popular culture.
Adopting a global lens, focusing on theory and cases from across the world, this module introduces you to theoretical, historical, and contemporary debates around ethnicity and race. You’ll explore key theories used to analyse the production of race, racism, and colonialism in a historical and contemporary framework.
You’ll examine the role of race in contemporary debates around equality, diversity, and inclusion. You’ll also consider the ways in which various categories such as class, gender, sexuality, among others, intersect with race.
Cultural Practice Modules
This module prepares you to develop an applied practice of diversity and inclusion. You’ll critique diversity and inclusion policies and initiatives from a range of professional and organisational settings in relation to their cultural values and contexts.
You’ll consider how popular interventions such as ‘unconscious bias’ training intersect with understandings of systemic inequality and personal responsibility. Using critical analytic tools such as intersectionality, you’ll also consider the relationship between knowledge, power, and discrimination.
How do cultural producers communicate across geographical and linguistic divides? How do they adapt material for different audiences? What narratives do they seek to tell, and how? What motivates individuals and organisations to share their personal cultural perspectives online?
In this module, you’ll compare and critique different methods of cultural communication and the innovative ways to communicate complex ideas through various media.
This module seeks to trace, trespass, and redraw the boundaries we so often unconsciously construct and defend as we create and share knowledge. It considers important paradigm shifts, notorious controversies, the latest interdisciplinary theories, and inspiring advancements in understanding.
You’ll consider a range of cultural and professional case studies which challenge silo-thinking and institutional orthodoxies, and the new possibilities that lie beyond them.
As a global citizen, you’ll think in a sustained and critical way about how studying global cultures can serve to create social good. Taking an experiential, challenge-centred approach, you’ll choose a real social issue relating to your region.
You’ll then conduct research into its origins and key factors and consider how the concepts and approaches you have learned might offer creative solutions. For the assessment, you’ll complete a consultancy report evaluating the problem, designing a creative solution, and a leadership strategy to implement it.
Course fee
Global:
- Course Fee: GBP 15,492
+VAT if applicable
Fees are determined by where applicants are currently working and residing
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Academics
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